A key adviser to President Biden described the coronavirus pandemic as “the best thing that has ever happened”, a new book has revealed.
Biden’s adviser, Anita Dunn, made the revealing remark in a conversation with a co-worker during the campaign, veteran journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes revealed in their book.
Dunn’s comments were something that ‘campaign officials believed but would never say in public’, the authors write in ‘Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency’, which will be released next week.
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The remark about the bomb was first reported on Wednesday by The Guardian, which obtained an early copy of the book.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not immediately return a request for comment on Dunn’s comment.
Dunn, a Democrat veteran, has temporarily joined the White House as a senior adviser after playing a similar role in the campaign. She was previously an adviser to former president. Barack Obama and served as director of communications in his White House.
US CORONAVIRUS DEATH EXCEEDS 500,000
On Tuesday, the United States reached 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 – a macabre milestone that Biden recognized with a solemn ceremony and a call on Americans to ‘remember those we lost and those we left behind’.
The 500,000 death rate was about a month after the U.S. reached 400,000 deaths due to the new coronavirus.
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According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 112 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide with nearly 2.5 million deaths. More than 63 million people have recovered from the virus.